conditional_entropy#

conditional_entropy(x: Union[List, ndarray, Series], y: Union[List, ndarray, Series]) float[source]#

Calculate the conditional entropy of x given y: S(x|y).

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conditional_entropy

Parameters
x: Union[List, np.ndarray, pd.Series]

A sequence of numerical_variable without nulls

y: Union[List, np.ndarray, pd.Series]

A sequence of numerical_variable without nulls

Returns
float

Representing the conditional entropy